Bottle-cooler



(No Model.)

P. M. WBNTHEB..

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No. 253,796. Patented Feb. 1411882.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

PAUL M. WENTHER, OF SIOUX CITY, IOWA.

BOTTLE-COOLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 253,796, dated February 14, 1882.

e Application leanecmber 6,1981. (No model.)

To all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, PAUL M. lVEN'rHER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sioux City, in the county of Woodbury and State ot' Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Coolers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in bottle-coolers in which liquids in bottles are cooled and kept constantly cool by the use of ice, cool Water, or other cooling substance.

` The objects of my invention are, irst, to provide a bottle-cooler for cooling and keeping bottles of liquors continuously cool, so constructed and arranged that said bottles shall always be convenient for use; and, second, to

`offer facilities for the frequent use of said bottles containing the liquors thus cooled and reduce the labor attending thereon. These obzo jects I attain by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Fignre lis a front elevation of my improved cooler, showing the dotted outline of a counter or bar under which the cooler may be placed, in the manner shown and hereinafter described. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

Similar parts are referred to by similar letters ofreference throughout the different views.

The construction and arrangement of this cooler are so fullyillustrated by the accompanying drawings that I deem a brief description of it sufficient. lt consists of a case or boX,AA, made of wood or other suitable material, lined throughout with suitable metallic lining, and provided near the bottom with a number of water-tight metallic tubes, a, the back ends of which are closed, with the front ends opening on the outside of the cooler. These tubes a are inclined upward toward the front, placed in line with each other and a short distance apart, leaving a space around each for the free passage of the wateror other cooling substance. Each tube is made of a proper size to hold one of the bottles in use, and over each is placed a plate or label, b, with the name of the liquor said bottle contains thereon. At each end ot' the cooler is a board, E, projecting slightly below the bottom of the casing A A, and provided with feet c c. These boards hold the whole firm and furnish a support for the same. A- door or doors, D, open into the space B above the tubes a. Through these doors D the Cooling substance-preferably ice-is placed directly on the tubes a. The water from the ice drips into and fills the space below and around the tubes, and thus cools and keeps constantly cool the liquors contained in the bottles therein'. This water may be allowed to escape or may be drawn off at any time by means of a small discharge-pipe, d, placed at the bottom of the cooler and supplied with a stop-cock, C.

For use in saloons the cooler may be placed under the counter or bar, the feet c cof the end boards, E,resting on cleats on the counter or bar supports, as shown; or, if desired, the end boards, E, may be secured directly to said supports by means ot' screws. By this arrangement tlle frequent use of the bottles is greatly facilitated, and considerable laborand inconvenience is saved, each bottle having a particular place in easy reach of the bar-tender.

The cooler also may at anytime be easily 'removed or replaced; or, it' desired, it may be set at any convenient point on the door, or on a shelf or brackets against the wall.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. In a bottle-cooler provided with coolingtubes a, a door, D, opening into the space B above said tubes, substantially as shown and described, and for the purpose set forth.

2. In a bottle-cooling device, the metallic cooling-tubes a, placed at an angle to the main part of said cooler, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a bottle-cooler provided with coolingtubes a, a door, D, opening into the space B above said tubes, in combination with a discharge-pipe, d, leading from the space below said tubes, and provided with a stop-cock, O, substantially as shown and described.

4. In a bottle-cooler, the case A A and end pieces, E E, in combination with the coolingtubes a andlabels b, substantially as described and shown.

5. In a bottle-cooling device, the case A A, provided with the cooling-tubes a, doors D, discharge-pipe d, and stop-cock C, in combination with the end pieces, E E, having feet c c, substantially as shown and described.

6. The combination of the case A A, cooling-tubes a, labels b, doors D, discharge-pipe d, stop-cock O, and end pieces, E, having feet c c, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

Witnesses: PAUL MATTHIAS WENTHER.

C. W. GUTLEE, GEO. W. WAKEEIELD.

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